From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:10:49 +0300 Message-ID: References: <48653F58.9070608@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214665876 13241 80.91.229.12 (28 Jun 2008 15:11:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:11:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 28 17:12:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KCc5p-0007pJ-Dx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:12:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCc4z-0005Wh-AY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCc4u-0005WS-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:11:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCc4t-0005WG-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:11:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56076 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCc4s-0005WD-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:12793) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KCc4h-0005aS-Ct; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.31.196]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K3600G4JIVJVXA0@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:26:08 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100090 Archived-At: > From: Richard M Stallman > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:20:24 -0400 > Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > The Burma / Myanmar renaming was understandable as a political statement > given the events that were happening at the time. But what exactly have > the British done to trigger this? > > Nothing _now_. Emacs used to use American spellings uniformly, > but inconsistencies have crept in over the years. It was just now > that we noticed them and Glenn volunteered to clean them up. Inconsistencies in spelling in Emacs manuals and doc strings, i.e. in text presented to the user, should indeed be fixed. But fixing inconsistencies in old ChangeLog entries is IMO a waste of Glenn's time and energy.